Is there really a different between all living beings? don't they all deserve to live in peace? how can we love one kind but eat the other? they all want to live! They all have feelings and emotions.

I do understand what you saying but its the way the food chain works, the bird eats the worm an the cat eat the bird lol

Do you find the mass growing of animals in captivity for profit a part of the food chain?

Hunting your food is one thing.Buying it in a supermarket is another.

countryguy--well said-life is what it is--even plants are living organisms--no food chain-no life at all--

jax-about stores--do you know a better way to get the food to the masses???? i guess that why we have one man one vote--we all want the world to be perfect before we are are---

You are missing the point.Humans have a good way in distorting everything to justify their behavior and actions.

My point was about the choice of which animals are ok to eat and which are taboo. when if you think of it there is not much difference between them except for how they taste.

I think that depends on culture.
Some cultures eat animals western society classes as pets & would most likely never eat.
Other cultures treat as sacred animals we farm to feed the masses.

you keep Cows as Pets?

And that sort of farming is costing us too much...I don't believe we really need it.we just got used to it.

It's an Evil industry in my opinion.causing more damage than good in so many ways.we lost the respect we need to give to the only planet we only abusing it on a mass scale.have you seem the conditions those animals live in? whats normal about it? how can we be so ignorant to suffering?

Just because i don't keep it as a pet does not mean i have to eat it.

I'm a farmer, and I understand and agree with this.
The smaller family farms that used to cover thecountryside, are disappearing.
Squeezed out and swallowed up by the huge corporate industrial/factory farms.
To me, this is disheartening. Where people used to be stewards of the land, and caretakers of livestock,
now the idea seems to be to 'mine' the land, sucking as much out of it as possible.
Makes me sick, angry, and not real hopeful of the future.
As I once heard it stated:
"Mother earth will supply our needs...not our greeds".

yep this ^^^^^
also some types of animals are not safe to eat or are considered unclean such as scavengers. Of course it doesn't keep people from eating them.

Your dog or cat comes into my yard it could find itself on my grill.

^^↑^Agreed

"Mother earth will supply our needs...not our greeds"

I like that quote.Should make a sticker out of it,or a t-shirt :)

animals 'deserve' to survive until they die or are eaten,, thats the natural cycle. They even eat each other.

How humane we are in our process is another matter, but that we eat some animals is just natural.

It is customary to eat cattle, and poultry, and fish. I cant attest for people who eat rodents like squirrel, or possum, etc,,,,lol

But it is the fate of animals to die and usually be eaten.

Their fate in nature is not the same as the fate of the animals living in the industry.they don't live free and natural life.
I can't see the natural cycle in it.just for the record we slaughter about 150 billion animals a year for food.

trust me you get hungry enough..
your little pet dog fluffy.. is going to start looking pretty appetizing....lol

I would kill anything that moves for survival.i would eat you too if hungry enough.I bet you taste like pork.

bcose iam hungry.and my cows not my pet,hes my dinner.

http://img.qz.com/2014/02/cow-head.jpg?w=700


Bon Appetit!